Alternative Medicine (2 books in 1): Herbal Antivirals: The Ultimate Guide to Herbal Healing, Magic, Medicine, and Antibiotics + Herbal Remedies: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Antibiotics and Antivirals

By Soulevar Iren

"Alternative Medicine (2 books in 1) : Herbal Antivirals: The Ultimate Guide to Herbal Healing, Magic, Medicine, and Antibiotics + Herbal Remedies: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Antibiotics and Antivirals" by Iren Soulevar. The easy guide that will allow you to enhance health but also prevent illness and cure diseases thanks to the antiviral power of leaves, seeds and plant roots! Alternative Medicine is one of the most ancient practices that exist and is worldwide known. It is based on using herbs and seeds as antivirals or remedies against illness. However the word "natural" doesn't always mean "safe". So, if you are tired of using the nasty chemicals in medicine to fight your and your family's illnesses and you want to learn how to use herbs in a safe way, you can now discover it thanks to "Alternative Medicine" by Iren Soulevar. Here's what you'll find inside: modern Herbal Medicine and Herbal Medicine in history traditional African medicine and its relationships with modern medicine keys fact about emerging viruses (warning signs, viral diseases, types of viruses) challenges associated with monitoring safety of Herbal Medicines what viral encephalitis and respiratory infections are how to use Herbal Remedies safely the 17 best herbs with antiviral activities tips when growing herbs Herbal Remedy recipes ...and much more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Youcanprint
• Release date: Aug 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220354073

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Chapter One

About herbal antiviral

In rather general terms, the word 'antiviral agents' has been described as substances other than a virus or virus producing vaccine or particular antibody that may create either a preventive or therapeutic effect to the direct observable benefit of the virus infected host. The herbal remedy has a long conventional history and their large therapeutic window of unusual side effects is the main benefit over other medicines.

There are many drawbacks to synthetic products, such as the limited treatment window and, most specifically, the multiple harmful side effects that arise very frequently. Because of these drawbacks and other weaknesses there is a increasing movement in science to explore new and valuable medicines dependent on various herbal formulations.

While natural goods have been utilized by humanity since ancient times, work on alternative medicines and the medicinal usage of natural products, in particular those extracted from plants, has only been increasing in recent decades. Plants synthesize and retain a range of biochemical compounds, many of which can be derived and used for specific scientific study. Medicinal plants have thus proven to be a significant refuge in many cultures for the diagnosis of illnesses and sicknesses by conventional healers.

Viral infections are the worldwide accountable for major morbidity and mortality. Infectious viral diseases tend to present a significant danger to public health and remain a big concern worldwide • A variety of cases of viral diseases have been recorded from various regions of the world, including India • The absence of appropriate therapy for viral diseases and the limited therapeutic efficacy of most medications have contributed to reliance on vaccines as preventive measures • Nowadays, conventional drugs are being revalued for their therapeutic ability by comprehensive development projects • Medicinal plants have been utilized since ancient times in western healthcare schemes and are now the most significant source of healthcare for the overwhelming majority of the world population. Seventy-80 per cent of people worldwide are projected to depend on conventional herbal medicine to fulfill their primary health care needs. Globally, millions of people depend on medicinal plants not just for primary health treatment, but also for generating income and enhancing livelihoods 5. India has a rich cultural heritage in the field of traditional medicines and consists of two treatment systems, i.e. Systems Ayurvedic and Unani 6. Ethno-pharmacological experience of conventional herbal medicine usage has become an valuable source of information and has proven very effective in the detection of bioactive substances, particularly as compared to the standard approach of random large volume screening 7. Worldwide, numerous conventional medicine schemes have herbal formulas as their base 8. Many of them, including the Tibetan method, remain centralized in a country or area, whilst others, including the Ayurveda and Chinese systems, are gaining prominence and are gradually being used in various parts of the world 9. It is essential for a plant to be considered a medicinal plant to have its biological activity recorded ethanobotanically or scientifically identified as 10. There are numerous medicinal plants in Ayurveda system comprising specific forms of chemical compounds which can serve as a source of numerous therapeutic agents to cure public health-related diseases 9. While the field of herbal medicines or we may claim that the field of Ayurveda has enormous opportunities in today's medical sciences and also holds promises for the future, it also has its own limits, as all herbal formulations essentially rely on the availability of plant content that depends directly or indirectly on different facts Antivirals: A Natural Solution Natural Anti-viral Medicine: An Introduction The word 'antiviral agents' has been described in very broad terms as substances other than a virus or virus containing vaccines or unique antibodies which can create either a preventive or therapeutic impact to the direct observable benefit of the virus infected host.

Herbal herbal goods are considered one of the most significant fields of concern of conventional medical structures worldwide. Man relies solely on plants and plant products explicitly for his essential needs as food, clothes and shelter and indirectly for their beneficial climate effect and preservation of his immediate and remote ecosystem, rendering plants crucial to his life and the foundation of his continued existence.

In 1978, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has emphasized the significance of medical study into herbal medicine and since then, developing countries around the world have begun testing projects to scientifically show the therapeutic potential of their natural medicinal plants in order to recognize them as an extension to the WHO list of necessary medicines as practicable. Medicinal plants have lately held an significant role as the primary origins of drug development, irrespective of their classified categories-weed, shrub or fruit. The usage of conventional drugs for their medicinal properties is today not restricted to developed countries alone.

According to a study published by WHO, almost 80 percent of people residing in rural areas are relying on medicinal plants as the primary health care method and their activities are focused solely on experience of conventional medicinal plant use14. According to a study from the FAO, at least 25 per cent of medicines used in conventional pharmacopoeia are produced from plant products and several other medicines (synthetic analogs) are based on plant-isolated sample compounds. Pharmaceutical industry's drug discovery projects play an significant part in natural goods, because more than 50 percent of all new prescription medicines come from natural sources.

Some of the antiviral-properties of medicinal plants against different viruses are documented in various studies. Most infectious diseases are also a great risk to people, which still trigger death. Historically, lethal diseases triggered worldwide pandemics. Nowadays there is much greater danger of transmitting viruses across continents and nations.

They are difficult to monitor because of the biochemical effects of viruses, so there are still very few drugs for the management of viral diseases. Viral diseases have been considered as intractable to targeted antiviral chemotherapy for several years, as the virus 'replicative process was believed to be so tightly interwoven with natural cell replication such that any effort to inhibit virus reproduction will always be doomed to destroy (or seriously harm) the uninfected cell.

Synthetic agents for the management of viral infections often prove unsatisfactory and restricted due to small operation scope, reduced clinical ability, toxicity and resistant viral strains. With the elucidation of virus-specific events as targets for chemotherapeutic assault and the emergence of a variety of effective antiviral drugs, it has been abundantly apparent that virus replication targeted chemotherapy can be done and that transmission of viruses can be blocked without deleterious effects on the host.

The process of viral replication can be approximately divided into 10 stages: virus-cell adsorption (binding, attachment), virus-cell fusion (entry, penetration), uncoating (decapsidation), early transcription and early translation, virus genome replication, late transcription, late translation, virus assembly, and release. Many of these measures may be used as goals for chemotherapy action.

Viral envelope and membrane protein are the primary targets for antiviral formulations. The viral shell is a reasonable choice for antiviral chemotherapy in the case of enveloped viruses, as its removal leaves the virus susceptible to replication and allows virus communicability less feasible.

The broad-spectrum antivirals target the rate of viral replication cycle events such as enveloping protein glycosylation, processing and folding, or fusion of viral cell membrane through viral uncoating or assembly.

The viral nucleic acids had been another significant goal for the production of antiviral formulations. The virus-specific antivirals target virus-encoded activities (enzymes) such as viral polymerase or protease and these agents typically have strong therapeutic indices (TI) (100 – 1000).

This method contributes to the development of virus progeny with faulty nucleic acids that would either be dysfunctional or provide nonsense coding for viral proteins / enzymes, and hence will inhibit the virulence of the resulting virus. The downside of their strong specificity, however, is a rapid transition of the virus to the medication and the subsequent production of medication tolerance due to accumulation of mutations. Although broad-spectrum antivirals are less prone to establish drug resistance, their efficacy is typically a trade-off between both cytotoxicity and anti-viral results.

The main targets for antiviral drugs have historically been nucleoside analogues and other organic compounds. The usage of synthetic antiviral drugs is always unsatisfactory, and restricted. After diagnosis, mutated viruses immune to current antiviral agents emerge, or such agents may cause side or toxic effects besides their high expense.

Herbal Antiviral Drugs New compounds with antiviral activity are urgently required, as the treatment of viral infections with the existing antiviral drugs is frequently unsatisfactory due to the problem of viral tolerance coupled with the problem of viral persistence and contradictory effectiveness of chronic infections of patients with immune compromising.

Bio-prospecting analysis of natural resources can be performed in two directions. Secondly, the classical process includes solutions to phytochemical causes, serendipity and spontaneous sampling. Secondly, it depends on conventional knowledge and practices or ethno-pharmacology which provides an alternative approach to the discovery of antiviral agents, namely the analysis of medicinal plants with a background of conventional use as a potential source of substances with significant pharmacological and biological